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Network Gaming and DSL routing

I am thinking of making a small Ethernet home network and sharing a DSL between the two (or more) computers using a DSL/cable router. My question involves IP gaming with the shared connection.....I know they can play over the LAN and one computer can play using direct IP. Can both (or more) of the LAN computers join an IP game.....say that someone off the network started? If you have a static IP, does the router assign a new IP to the networked computers? Does each individual computer have a new IP given by the router? I am all very familiar with direct IP gaming, but the whole home network is very new to me. Thanks for the info.

I use the Netgear DSL Router/Hub. The static IP is assigned to the hub which also acts as a hardware firewall. The IP addresses for the computers which it's connected to are set to auto assign. The router will then assign a new IP internal IP to each computer.

It's very simple to use. Set all computers as auto IP. Then from one of the comps, open a web browser and type in the router's IP. It should open up a config page where you'll enter the numbers your ISP gave you.

I have the linksys 4-port router and it kickz some serious azz! It is REAL user friendly and does not give up any performance at the same time. I have 2...soon to be three...computers running off of it right now. With another hub you could actually hook up to 250 pcs to the one router.

It gives you a lot of control as to what ports you want to route to what computer also. I have not had a problem or found something that I can not do with it yet.

- You might have to configure access to a port for the game server's connection.

- You might have difficulty if two of your machines attempt to connect to the same server for the same game. To the outside world your computers will appear to have the same IP address and this can cause problems with some servers. However, some can handle multiple connections from the same address. It just depends on the server.